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UNITED, STATES PATENT FFICE.

JONATHAN BOOTI-IMAN, OF OHEETHAM, ENGLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,048, dated December28, 1897.

Application filed May 10,1897. Serial No. 635,898. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN BooTHMAN, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, and a resident of 361 St. Lukes Terrace, Oheetham,near Manchester, county of Lancaster, England, have invented certainImprovements in or Applicable to Nail (Jutting and Driving Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to improvements in or applicable to machinesfor forming nails from a continuous length of wire and driving them intoboots and other articles.

The object of this invention is to improve machines which use incombination two reversely-inclined cutters, one being fixed and theother reciprocating, by further combining therewith reciprocating meansof supplying the nail to be driven and making the cutter-bar of the saidreciprocating cutter present a driver hole or passage in line with thesaid carrier and the fixed outlet or feed-hole leading from the latter.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination ofparts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the lower part of anail making and driving machine, showing the Wire in position to be cut.Fig. 2 is v a sectional plan through at a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a frontelevation corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the parts in theirrelative positions when the nail is being driven. Fig. 4 is a sectionalplan through w ac of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through y yof Fig. 1. Figs. 6 and 7 show plan and elevation, respectively, of thecutters and nozzle or nail-carrier to be hereinafter described. Figs. 8and 9 show front and side elevation of a nail having the inclined pointformed on the broad side of the wire.

In the drawings only so much of a machine is shown as is necessary toillustrate the application of my said invention. Nail cutting anddriving machines having reciprocating cutters of several kinds operatedby horizontal levers actuated by cams on the drivingshaft of the machineare well known.

The driver-head Works in the usual guidin g-groove 1. The point of thedriver 2 passes through the drivinghole 3. A vertical hole 12,

known as the feeding-hole, made through a bracket or slide-bar carrier0, hereinafter described, and through a block or nozzle 13, fixed to thelatter, is in the same vertical plane with driving-hole 3, longitudinalof the cutter-holder 8 in which the said vertical driving-hole 3 ismade, and also in the same transverse vertical plane with the bore ofnailcarrier 7 in the line of reciprocation of the latter. At a certainpoint of the throw of the nail-carrier slide 7 and the cutter-holder 3the said'driving-hole, feeding-hole, and nailcarrier bore register, soas to make a continuous vertical passage for the driver-point and nails.

A fixed cutter 4, having an inclined cutting edge at 45, (see Fig. 7 fordetail,) is secured by set-screws 5 in the frame 6 of the machine. Thewire to is fed down behind the inner face of the fixed cutter 4 and infront of the inclined edge of the reciprocating cutter 8, as shown inFigs. 6 and 7. The reciprocating cutter 8 is secured to the cutterholder8 by means of set-screws 8 A nozzle or nail-carrier 7, through which thenails pass and which transports the cut nails from the place where theyare formed to the driver, is mounted in the slide-bar 7, which has arectilinear reciprocating motion parallel to the front of the machine,While the sliding cutter 3 has a rectilinear reciprocating motion atright angles thereto-that is to say, to and from the front of themachine instead {of from left to right, and vice versa, as has hithertobeen the case. The nail is thus at once formed with its penetrating edgenormal to the edge of the article into which it is to be driven. Whenthe nail has been cut, the waste piece 14. of the wire is carriedforward in front of the reciprocating cutter 8, until, reaching thefront edge of the machine, it falls into the usual tray or'chuteconveniently placed to receive the waste.

0 is a bracket, secured to the frame 6 by means of set-screws c, andformsa carrier or support for the slide-bar 7.

Mounted on the table 0., Figs. 1 to 4., is an oscillating lever 9connected at 11 to the slide-bar 7-, which, when operated by means of acam on the main driving-shaft, imparts a reciprocating motion to theslide 7. A bell-crank lever 10, also mounted on the table a of themachine, also worked by a cam 011 the main driving-shaft, operates thereciprocating cutter 8.

Assuming the parts to be in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and thewire to have been threaded right through the nozzle or nail-carrier 7,the reciprocating cutter 8 is caused by means of the bell-crank lever 10to travel forward in the direction of the an row I), Fig. 2, whereuponthe lower end of the wire 10 is severed by the joint action of the fixedcutter 4 and the reciprocating cutter 8. Thelower end of the wire havingbeen severed remains in the nozzle or nail-carrier 7 until it comesunder the driving-hole 3 and over the orifice in the stationary nozzle15, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, thus forming a continuous passage for thedescent of the (lriv-- ing-pin. \Vhen this position is attained, thedriving-pin 2 descends and the nail is driven into the boot or otherarticle. The slide 7" and the reciprocating cutter 8 next move back intothe position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The wire is fed downward by theusual feedrolls, and the same sequence of operations takes place.

By the said means [lat taper-pointed nails may be cut from flat wirewith the incline on the broad side of the wire, as shown in Figs. 8 and9, while at the same time enabling them to be driven with the narrowsides of the nails parallel to the edge of the article operated upon.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a nail making and driving machine the combination of areciprocating cutter and its cutter-bar the latter having a drivingholeformed therein, with a fixed cutter, a reciprocating nail-carrier andmeans for allowing the passage of the nail therefrom out of the machinethe said driving-hole, the bore of the nail-carricr and theoutlet-passage being arranged to register in a certain position of thereciprocating parts substantially as set forth.

2. In a nail cutting and driving machine the combination of a fixedcutter 4, a rectilinear reciprocating cutter 8 having a drivinghole 3therein, a reciprocating slide-bar 7 and nailcarrier 7 moving therewithand a fixed part having a feed-hole with which the said driving-hole andthe bore of the said carrier are arranged to register substantially asset forth.

In a nail making and driving machine, a cutter-bar and a nail-carrierreciprocating at right angles to each other and a fixed nozzle having afeed-hole arranged to register with the bore of the said carrier andwith a driving-hole in the said cutter-bar substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JONATHAN BOOTIIMAN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD TURNER NVHITELOW, ALFRED TURNER Wi-IITELOW.

